Lawan Reveals Salaries Of Members Of The National Assembly
The salaries and emoluments of members of the National Assembly were announced to the public by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday in Abuja. Lawan also claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari had surpassed his predecessors in terms of legislative assent. He stated this in a paper presented at the First Distinguished Parliamentarians […]
Student Assaulted, Set Ablaze By Cultists For Refusing To Join A Cult – UNIOSUN
The management of Osun State University, Osogbo, has said that its security team is working with the police to ensure that suspected cultists who attacked a student of the university, Victor Oke, on Saturday in the Akede area of Osogbo, are apprehended and punished. Oke, a part-time final-year Political Science student, was pressured to join […]
Strike Will Continue Indefinitely Until All Agreements Are Met- ASUU
Over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, has warned a total showdown with the Federal Government. The union said on Monday at a press conference at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka that it will go on an indefinite strike because “the Federal Government has ignored ASUU’s magnanimity […]
Tornado Toll In Dozens, Yet Not As High As Initially Feared
Night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles at Mayfield Consumer Products, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went out to seek shelter. For Autumn Kirks, that meant tossing aside wax and fragrance buckets to make an improvised safe place. She glanced away from her […]
Kaduna Launches Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Campaign
Kaduna State has launched a mass vaccination effort to have all citizens immunized with Covid-19 vaccines, with the goal to increase coverage from 10% to 70% by the first quarter of next year. Acting Governor of the state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, who launched the campaign at the secretariat of the Kaduna North Local Government Council, […]
Reps Summons Adebayo, Malami, FIRS Over Tax Holiday Dispute
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has summoned Niyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investments; Abubakar Malami (SAN), Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation; and the Federal Inland Revenue Service to explain why some companies were not given a certificate of acceptance before being allowed to enjoy tax holidays. The […]
NDLEA Nabs Two Nigerians, Ghanaian With Cocaine, Tramadol, Among Other Illicit Drugs
Ndubuisi Uzoh, a suspected drug trafficker, was apprehended by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, about 5.30 p.m., Uzoh, who traveled from Brazil through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was detained with 6.7 kilograms of cocaine hidden in his garments during an inward screening […]
FG Expected To Add UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, And Other Countries To The Red List Today
All eyes are on the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, which is expected to declare the Federal Government’s placing of the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, and Saudi Arabia, among others, on a red list, banning both airlines and citizens from visiting Nigeria. The Federal Government is rebelling against blanket restrictions on Nigerian citizens due […]
Crews Search For The Missing After Devastating Tornadoes Hit Central US
Rescuers combed through fields of wreckage after a tornado outbreak roared across the middle of the U.S., leaving dozens dead and communities in despair. A twister carved a track that could rival the longest on record as the stormfront smashed apart a candle factory, crushed a nursing home and flattened an Amazon distribution center. “I pray that […]
South African Doctors See Signs Omicron Is Milder Than Delta
As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. That’s one of the reasons why he, along with other doctors and medical experts, suspect that the omicron version really is causing milder COVID-19 than delta, […]
